Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cable, Eugene 1896
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Ionia Standard, 29 May 1896

Suicide.

Eugene Cable Seeks Surcease From Life’s Troubles.

He Takes Strychnine, and is Dead Within an Hour – Business Troubles the 
Supposed Cause.

About 1:45 Wednesday p.m., Eugene Cable sauntered into Van Allens’ drug store, 
and after some talk asked for ten cents worth of strychnine to kill rats with.  
The drug was put up for him, and the usual entry made on the poison record 
book.  A few minutes later Cable appealed to A.J. Cook, near Van Allen’s, to 
lead him home, saying he was sick.  Orry Waterbury coming along with horse and 
carriage, Cook and Cable were taken in, and conveyed to Cable’s home, the new 
restaurant opposite the Dexter house.  On the way down, they met Dr. Logan, and 
asked him to come down.  The doctor went to his office for his medicine box, 
and followed them down.

Cable was in a spasm when the doctor arrived, and one of the men asked the 
patient if he had not been taking something.  He responded, “Yes, arsene,” Dr. 
Logan said the symptoms did not suggest arsenic, but strychnine and Cable said, 
“Yes that’s it.”

The doctor sent down stairs for mustard, hot water and spoon, intending to give 
him an emetic.  Mrs. Cable did not bring them up, and the doctor went after 
them, but he did not succeed in getting them down the patient, who shut his 
mouth so firmly that the doctor was unable to pry it open with any thing at 
hand. 

The doctor then gave him a hypodermic injection of morphine, and went to his 
office for a stomach pump.  On his return to the restaurant, Cable was dead.

Cable came here about three years ago from Lowell.  He worked in the railroad 
shops for two years or a little over, and was laid off last spring, when the 
force was reduced.  He rented the building corner of Depot and Front streets, 
and fitted it up in very neat shape for a restaurant.  It was out-of-the-way, 
however, and business did not prosper, and he became despondent, and to this is 
attributed the main cause of the trouble leading to his self destruction.  
Marshal Redemsky said he had applied to him for work two or three days ago, 
saying he was hard up, and the marshal promised to furnish him some soon. 

The railroad men generally speak of him in favorable terms, as a gentle and 
genial kind of fellow, and affectionate to his family.  It had been noticed 
that of late he had acted rather queerly, and it is thought he may have been 
somewhat unbalanced mentally.

He leaves a wife and two children, a boy of 9 years, and a girl of 7.  When 
taken home he asked Cook to send to the school house for his boy, but when the 
lad arrived the father was too far gone to recognize him.

Mrs. Cable says that they were married fourteen years ago at Lowell where her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. McFarlane, now reside.  She says her husband has acted 
queerly for about a month, and had before threatened to poison himself, 
exhibiting to her a powder two or three days ago, which he said was poison.  
She said she thought business troubles were the cause. 

There are some circumstances which afford grounds for supposition that domestic 
infelicity played some part in this drama of real life, but the exact nature 
and extent of same is not known.

The Sheriff and Coroner Williams were speedily on hand, and a jury was 
impaneled, consisting of Wm. Wallace, A.J. Cook, Lee Ball, George Odgen, A.C. 
Stevens, and Harry Spencer, who viewed the remains, and adjourned to 10:00 a.m. 
Monday.


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